Draft to Life Contest 2 - Chain Order Combos (ended)

[[LBI]Melto]

- Draft to Life Contest II -
Chain Order Combos

Welcome to the 2nd contest of Draft to Life ! This contest is a chance for you to show everyone your talents of creativity. Just fit the challenge rules and create/compose a hero idea which is better that everyone. For the winners of this contest a playable version of his hero will be created to play in practice game now (and more better after) and to show everyone what is a masterpiece in game !

Status

HOST: Melto

PHASE I: ENDED
PHASE II : ENDED
CONTESTANT ENTRIES: CLOSED
ENTRY MODIFICATION: NOT ALLOWED

Attendees

Contestants

• No post count or previous hero making experience required.
• Please post your entries in the hero drafts section with [D2L-2] in the title and link to them in this thread.
• The host will decide from submitted entry if contestant is fit to participate.
• Don't forget that the entry need to be codable. Don't worry, after Part I, the Host will tell to all contestants if his draft's skills are all codable (and change a skill before Part II if it isn't).
• Note that the hero idea has to be original and preferably formatted.
• You can use a Draft of one of your hero made before contest as long as it hasn't been used in another contest and as long as you put in the title [D2L-2].
• Two entry max per contestant. Max Slots: --

Judges

• Requires reviewing experience.
• Just send a PM to the host
• For the newer judges will be sent a little admission exam to check if they can fit to become a judge.

The Challenge

Main Challenge

• You must create an agility carry and/or ganker hero.
• Your hero must have interskill interactions (Heroes with only high synergy and/or forced synergy will be accepted in the contest but less rewarded)

Interskill Interactions what is that ?

It is to have One active skill that has specific and additional bonus effects when cast along with, or after others of the hero's skills or it is to have two or more active skills that have specific additional bonus effects when cast along with, or after another skill. The skill(s) by themselves musn't be useless, and it's effects must be compounded by another skill.

Or said differently,

Interaction between skills means specifically that two or more of the hero's abilities effect the casting or use of the other skills when cast alongside each other. Both skills must have separate, individual issues as well. For example, Skill Q causes X effect, Skill W causes Y effect. When Skill Q is used directly after Skill W, Y effect is somehow modified by X effect.

Bonus Challenge

• Give your hero at least 1 skill shot ability.
• Genjuro is a Core Item on this Hero.

Part I

Ended

Contestants:

Slash - Melto (Example Instructions for D2L-2) Not a Contestant...

• Elite Mage Painter - Melto
• Scarlet - Matz0r
• The Monk - Matz0r
• The Elven Champion - Babylon7k
• Incanter - Beroya
• The Witch - Beroya
• Fel Arcanist - Ahimtar
• Vergil - MasterGeese
• Shadow Dancer - GeneralGrind
• Halfman - GeneralGrind
• Darkfire Imp - lolsworth
• Siegfried - DrPeckers
• Jackal Undertaker - DrPeckers
• The Spectral Archeress - McStealer
• The Suppressor - McStealer
• Cetos - Drasha

Judges:

• Melto
• Apostate
• DrPeckers

The first phase of this competition will involve creation of your hero to be judged in part II. All contestants should finish their hero at the end of this phase or the entry will be disqualified.

Closed at : 1st June, 2012

Part II

Ended

In this phase, judges starts to judge all the entries.

The winner is Vergil by Master Geese...

		FinalScore		Rank
Vergil by MasterGeese		302		1
Shadow Dancer by GeneralGrind		299		2
The Monk by Matz0r		287		3
Scarlet by Matz0r		285		4
Cetos by Drasha		276		5
The Elven Champion by Babylon7k		273		6
Halfman by GeneralGrind		270		7
Elite Mage Painter by Melto		267		8
Fel Arcanist by Ahimtar		264		9
Siegfried by DrPeckers		259		10
Jackal Undertaker by DrPeckers		253		11
Darkfire Imp by lolsworth		249		12
Incanter by Beroya		243		13
The Witch by Beroya		181		14
The Spectral Archeress by McStealer		---		DQ
The Suppressor by McStealer		---		DQ

Awards of Originality:
High Originality and good concept

Cetos by Drasha
Halfman by GeneralGrind



Awards of Fun Factor:
High entertainement Level

The Monk by Matz0r
Vergil by MasterGeese



Awards of Challenges:
Respect of Main Challenges and Bonus challenges

Shadow Dancer by GeneralGrind
Scarlet by Matz0r
Elite Mage Painter by Melto
Fel Arcanist by Ahimtar



Awards of Skillset:
Uniqueness of Abilities, alone and together

The Elven Champion by Babylon7k
The Monk by Matz0r

I will not provide detailed score of hero draft...
I will start to code Vergil this weekend or next week.
Since for this contest there's no concrete similarities between all the heroes, perhaps i'll code some other heroes from this contest after Vergil...
Thanks alll for you participation !



The playable version will be playable Soon, take a look at the playable hero repository !

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Downloadable at the Playable Hero Repository

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Criterias

Hero Draft:

Concept & Originality /50
Judge how original and creative the hero concept is. Concept means something overall and thematic not the details.

Abilities /80
How unique the abilities are to the current form of Heroes Of Newerth.

• :Codex: Ability 1 /20
• :Codex: Ability 2 /20
• :Codex: Ability 3 /20
• :Codex: Ultimate /20

Synergy /70
How synergy (or possible combos) the hero's skillset contains, while fulfilling the hero's role.

Gameplay & Fun Factor /60
How entertaining is the hero to use. Also judge the hero's playstyle, suitability to current form of Heroes Of Newerth.

Simplicity /25
How easily the general effects of the hero's abilities are understood.

Balance /15
How well the hero avoids obvious and crippling imbalances.

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Bonus Points:

oombringer: Unbalanced /-20
Penalties for imbalanced factor in the hero. Only serious imbalances that cannot be balanced at all will be counted here.
Slight overpowers or underpowers are excluded.

Cosmetics /10
Give bonus points for entries with really appealing visuals.

Main Challenge /50
:Genjuro: Bonus Challenge /20

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- Hero Draft /300
- Bonus Points /80

Final Score :
(Hero Draft + Bonus Points)



Template:

[SIZE=4][B]Hero Draft:[/B][/SIZE]

:bloo: [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=Yellow]Concept & Originality[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] /50
Judge how original and creative the hero concept is. Concept means something overall and thematic not the details.

:swif: [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=Yellow]Abilities[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] /80
How unique the abilities are to the current form of Heroes Of Newerth.


[LIST][*]:Codex: [B][SIZE=2][COLOR=Yellow]Ability 1[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] /20[*]:Codex: [B][SIZE=2][COLOR=Yellow]Ability 2[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] /20[*]:Codex: [B][SIZE=2][COLOR=Yellow]Ability 3[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] /20[*]:Codex: [B][SIZE=2][COLOR=Yellow]Ultimate[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] /20[/LIST]

:phar: [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=Yellow]Synergy[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] /70
How synergy (or possible combos) the hero's skillset contains, while fulfilling the hero's role.

:chip: [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=Yellow]Gameplay & Fun Factor[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] /60
How entertaining is the hero to use. Also judge the hero's playstyle, suitability to current form of Heroes Of Newerth.

:hamm: [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=Yellow]Simplicity[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] /25
How easily the general effects of the hero's abilities are understood.

:andr: [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=Yellow]Balance[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] /15
How well the hero avoids obvious and crippling imbalances.

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[SIZE=4][B]Bonus Points:[/B][/SIZE]

:Doombringer: [B][SIZE=2][COLOR=Red]Unbalanced[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] /-20
Penalties for imbalanced factor in the hero. Only serious imbalances that cannot be balanced at all will be counted here.
Slight overpowers or underpowers are excluded.

:frostburn: [B][SIZE=2][COLOR=Lime]Cosmetics[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] /10
Give bonus points for entries with really appealing visuals.


:pebb: [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=lime]Main Challenge[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] /50
:Genjuro: [B][SIZE=4][COLOR=lime]Bonus Challenge[/COLOR][/SIZE][/B] /20

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[SIZE=4][B][COLOR=Cyan]- Hero Draft[/COLOR][/B][/SIZE] /300
[SIZE=4][B][COLOR=Cyan]- Bonus Points[/COLOR][/B][/SIZE] /80

[SIZE=5][B][COLOR=Cyan]Final Score[/COLOR][/B][/SIZE] :
[I][SIZE=1](Hero Draft + Bonus Points)[/SIZE][/I]

[[KNO]DrPeckers]

Hi Ho, Hi Ho. Its off to work we go.

[[LBI]Melto]

Hi Ho, Hi Ho. Its off to work we go.

Lol DrPeckers !!! Thanks !



I added a Rule which answers your question Matz0r.

• You can use a Draft of one of your hero made before contest as long as it hasn't been used in another contest and as long as you put in the title [D2L-2].

Also, did I clearly explained the interskill interaction concept?

[MaTz0r]

Do I need to do a new hero? I have a really awsome hero that I did for an old context that didnt work it out, so the hero is alredy there

[MaTz0r]

Like, I made the hero for the context, but the context didn't happen at all xD So I can still use the hero now with some adjustments, right?:O

[[LBI]Melto]

No pb, remember that you can have 2 entries ...!!!

[[LBI]Melto]

which contest was it ?

I hope it isn't the agility pusher contest ?

[MaTz0r]

No, it was for Ninjapants Seed skill! I don't know if the topic still exist :/ the hero now is int, but she should be an agi, so I think it fits this contest.

[MaTz0r]

It feels that this hero is made for this contest...even the bonus points

http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/sh...8-HPC1-Scarlet

[MasterGeese]

Cool, I've got a hero that fits these criteria perfectly already! I'll get it up soon!

EDIT: I now present: Vergil

[Drasha]

Requirements to easy must resist giving my self an even harder restriction.

[Apostate]

Ill participate.

I'd be happy to judge in contests if judges are still needed?

[[LBI]Melto]

Ill participate.

I'd be happy to judge in contests if judges are still needed?

Yes judge are needed ! All right , but for those who wants to be judjeWn rather ask me from PM !

[Beroya]

The Witch

There's my entry.

[[LBI]Melto]

Care for confusion between interskill interaction and Synergy or Forced Synergy !
When synergy will already be needed in a Hero Draft, Interskill interaction is a Specific Concept...

[Skyve]

Care for confusion between interskill interaction and Synergy or Forced Synergy !
When synergy will already be needed in a Hero Draft, Interskill interaction is a Specific Concept...

Then I think you should make a better description of what you mean. Do you mean things like Pebbles or Chippers combos? (Which is what people often understand as forced synergy, although Pebbles, or rather Tiny, started out as a bug)

[[LBI]Melto]

Ok ! Maybe my english isn't good enough to explain you well what I mean, so I think tomorrow, I'll do a Hero Draft to show you guys what I mean ok?

[[CPTN]lolsworth]

It's funny how Gunblade and Blitz are pretty good fits for this contest lol

Check out my entry Darkfire Imp

[[LBI]Melto]

It's funny how Gunblade and Blitz are pretty good fits for this contest lol

Check out my entry Darkfire Imp

Blitz and Gunblade, it is more Synergy than interskill interaction...

I'll edit the first post... please take a look at it... I'll put a hero draft showing what i meant by interskill interactions...

Here the Draft: http://forums.heroesofnewerth.com/sh...-meant-to-be-)

Can please someone tell me after reading the Hero draft, if my definition of interskill interaction wasn't good, or understandable, and how would you reformulate it...

[[McDo]GeneralGrind]

Here is my entry

Shadow Dancer